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How DO Toilets Work in Space?

06/16/22

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is getting a massive makeover that includes the construction and renovation of 23 galleries. As part of that process, which is set to be completed sometime in 2025, the whole museum has been closed since March. But the west wing is →

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Smithsonian offers eye-level view of Spirit of St. Louis

01/20/15

The “Spirit of St. Louis” – the plane in which a 26-year-old Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic flight in May, 1927 – is one of the most popular artifacts at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The plane is usually suspended from the gallery ceiling, but for the next five months the →

Since Katy the waitress became an aviatress

01/06/15

Spotted in the sheet music collection of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. From 1919: From 1911: From 1909: →

Got a second? Time & Navigation exhibit at the Smithsonian

04/28/13

The National Air & Space Museum and the National Museum of American History have joined forces to create a new permanent exhibition at the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. called Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There. The new exhibit explores how revolutions in timekeeping allowed people to →

Smithsonian exhibit shows jets as art

11/24/11

Details and photos from the Air & Space Museum's new exhibit: AirCraft: Jets as Art →

TSA donates checkpoint classics to the Smithsonian

09/07/11

If Dorothy’s ruby red slippers and a green Kermit the Frog puppet can be part of the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, why not one of the gray bins from the modern-day airport security checkpoint. That’s exactly what’s happened. According to a guest blog post by Transportation Security Administration historian Michael P. C. Smith on →

Beyond Ground Zero: 9/11 exhibits

09/02/11

Beyond Ground Zero: 9/11 exhibits →

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Stuck at the airport: British Navy to the rescue

04/19/10

This closing-the-airports-because-of-the -volcano, for the fifth day now, is getting to be too much for a lot of travelers and now, for the British government. That’s why, says this article, “Royal Navy ships may be joined by commandeered civilian vessels to bring home British citizens, who have now been stuck since last Thursday across Europe →

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